Aurora R7, Samsung 970 EVO, compatible? #3

As long as it is the NVMe version, it will work fine.

@Tesla1856  - Agreed. The only caveat is that he'll have to do an installation via recovery media (ie USB) right? That is unless he uses something like Acronis True Image for bare metal restore and/or cloning to preserve the partitions.

There are various ways to do it.

The Dell Recovery partition is nothing special, but if you create the Windows Recovery USB-Drive , pretty sure that is what ends up on it. Good to have that USB, but I usually just make one at Microsoft.com .

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-M-2-NVMe-bootable-options/m-p/6073081/highlight/true#M3401

I think that it will work fine or you can try it once

"Agreed. The only caveat is that he'll have to do an installation via recovery media (ie USB) right? That is unless he uses something like Acronis True Image for bare metal restore and/or cloning to preserve the partitions."

No - the optane drive isn't a boot drive, it's an accelerator.  Disable optane using Intel RST and then there's nothing left on the optane drive, OS is entirely on the 3.5" platter.  That's when you can now remove the optane drive and pop in the new drive in its place.  

I have a Samsung Evo 970 1TB in my R7, it works fine. 

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